Error while installing

[VolkerSchlegel]

I tried to install it using pip, but I got the following error:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pip install python-lirc
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 reached the end of its life on January 1st, 2020. Please upgrade your Python as Python 2.7 is no longer maintained. pip 21.0 will drop support for Python 2.7 in January 2021. More details about Python 2 support in pip, can be found at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/development/release-process/#python-2-support
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Collecting python-lirc
  Using cached python-lirc-1.2.3.tar.gz (36 kB)
Using legacy setup.py install for python-lirc, since package 'wheel' is not installed.
Installing collected packages: python-lirc
    Running setup.py install for python-lirc ... error
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-nTATVo/python-lirc/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-nTATVo/python-lirc/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-Pik2vj/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --user --prefix= --compile --install-headers /home/pi/.local/include/python2.7/python-lirc
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-nTATVo/python-lirc/
    Complete output (13 lines):
    running install
    running build
    running build_ext
    building 'lirc' extension
    creating build
    creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7
    creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/lirc
    arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/python2.7-InigCj/python2.7-2.7.16=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC -I/usr/include/lirc/ -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c lirc/lirc.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-2.7/lirc/lirc.o
    lirc/lirc.c:276:10: fatal error: lirc/lirc_client.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
     #include "lirc/lirc_client.h"
              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    compilation terminated.
    error: command 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit status 1
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-nTATVo/python-lirc/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-nTATVo/python-lirc/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-Pik2vj/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --user --prefix= --compile --install-headers /home/pi/.local/include/python2.7/python-lirc Check the logs for full command output.

[tompreston]

Hey, I updated your code tags, you should use three backticks for code blocks.

You have two errors:

1. Python 2 has reached end of life, use Python 3 (pip3)
2. Looks like it can't find lirc/lirc_client.h, try installing liblircclient-dev

[VolkerSchlegel]

I know, that python 2 has reached the end of live, but sadly the script I want to run is still written in python 2... I sucessfullly installed liblircclient-dev but it still doesnt work..
Here is the error(in code blocks this time):

Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Collecting python-lirc
  Using cached python-lirc-1.2.3.tar.gz (36 kB)
Building wheels for collected packages: python-lirc
  Building wheel for python-lirc (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /usr/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-d9ubht_5/python-lirc/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-d9ubht_5/python-lirc/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-3sf_nu4y
       cwd: /tmp/pip-install-d9ubht_5/python-lirc/
  Complete output (97 lines):
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'lirc' extension
  creating build
  creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7
  creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7/lirc
  arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/lirc/ -I/usr/include/python3.7m -c lirc/lirc.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7/lirc/lirc.o
  lirc/lirc.c: In function '__Pyx__ExceptionSave':
  lirc/lirc.c:5050:21: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_type'; did you mean 'curexc_type'?
       *type = tstate->exc_type;
                       ^~~~~~~~
                       curexc_type
  lirc/lirc.c:5051:22: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_value'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
       *value = tstate->exc_value;
                        ^~~~~~~~~
                        curexc_value
  lirc/lirc.c:5052:19: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
       *tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                     curexc_traceback
  lirc/lirc.c: In function '__Pyx__ExceptionReset':
  lirc/lirc.c:5059:24: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_type'; did you mean 'curexc_type'?
       tmp_type = tstate->exc_type;
                          ^~~~~~~~
                          curexc_type
  lirc/lirc.c:5060:25: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_value'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
       tmp_value = tstate->exc_value;
                           ^~~~~~~~~
                           curexc_value
  lirc/lirc.c:5061:22: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
       tmp_tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                        curexc_traceback
  lirc/lirc.c:5062:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_type'; did you mean 'curexc_type'?
       tstate->exc_type = type;
               ^~~~~~~~
               curexc_type
  lirc/lirc.c:5063:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_value'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
       tstate->exc_value = value;
               ^~~~~~~~~
               curexc_value
  lirc/lirc.c:5064:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
       tstate->exc_traceback = tb;
               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
               curexc_traceback
  lirc/lirc.c: In function '__Pyx__GetException':
  lirc/lirc.c:5119:24: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_type'; did you mean 'curexc_type'?
       tmp_type = tstate->exc_type;
                          ^~~~~~~~
                          curexc_type
  lirc/lirc.c:5120:25: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_value'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
       tmp_value = tstate->exc_value;
                           ^~~~~~~~~
                           curexc_value
  lirc/lirc.c:5121:22: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
       tmp_tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                        curexc_traceback
  lirc/lirc.c:5122:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_type'; did you mean 'curexc_type'?
       tstate->exc_type = local_type;
               ^~~~~~~~
               curexc_type
  lirc/lirc.c:5123:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_value'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
       tstate->exc_value = local_value;
               ^~~~~~~~~
               curexc_value
  lirc/lirc.c:5124:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
       tstate->exc_traceback = local_tb;
               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
               curexc_traceback
  lirc/lirc.c: In function '__Pyx__ExceptionSwap':
  lirc/lirc.c:5146:24: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_type'; did you mean 'curexc_type'?
       tmp_type = tstate->exc_type;
                          ^~~~~~~~
                          curexc_type
  lirc/lirc.c:5147:25: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_value'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
       tmp_value = tstate->exc_value;
                           ^~~~~~~~~
                           curexc_value
  lirc/lirc.c:5148:22: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
       tmp_tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                        curexc_traceback
  lirc/lirc.c:5149:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_type'; did you mean 'curexc_type'?
       tstate->exc_type = *type;
               ^~~~~~~~
               curexc_type
  lirc/lirc.c:5150:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_value'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
       tstate->exc_value = *value;
               ^~~~~~~~~
               curexc_value
  lirc/lirc.c:5151:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
       tstate->exc_traceback = *tb;
               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
               curexc_traceback
  error: command 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit status 1
  ----------------------------------------
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for python-lirc
  Running setup.py clean for python-lirc
Failed to build python-lirc
Installing collected packages: python-lirc
    Running setup.py install for python-lirc ... error
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /usr/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-d9ubht_5/python-lirc/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-d9ubht_5/python-lirc/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-4yu2u8k8/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /usr/local/include/python3.7/python-lirc
         cwd: /tmp/pip-install-d9ubht_5/python-lirc/
    Complete output (97 lines):
    running install
    running build
    running build_ext
    building 'lirc' extension
    creating build
    creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7
    creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7/lirc
    arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/lirc/ -I/usr/include/python3.7m -c lirc/lirc.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7/lirc/lirc.o
    lirc/lirc.c: In function '__Pyx__ExceptionSave':
    lirc/lirc.c:5050:21: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_type'; did you mean 'curexc_type'?
         *type = tstate->exc_type;
                         ^~~~~~~~
                         curexc_type
    lirc/lirc.c:5051:22: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_value'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
         *value = tstate->exc_value;
                          ^~~~~~~~~
                          curexc_value
    lirc/lirc.c:5052:19: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
         *tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                       curexc_traceback
    lirc/lirc.c: In function '__Pyx__ExceptionReset':
    lirc/lirc.c:5059:24: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_type'; did you mean 'curexc_type'?
         tmp_type = tstate->exc_type;
                            ^~~~~~~~
                            curexc_type
    lirc/lirc.c:5060:25: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_value'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
         tmp_value = tstate->exc_value;
                             ^~~~~~~~~
                             curexc_value
    lirc/lirc.c:5061:22: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
         tmp_tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                          curexc_traceback
    lirc/lirc.c:5062:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_type'; did you mean 'curexc_type'?
         tstate->exc_type = type;
                 ^~~~~~~~
                 curexc_type
    lirc/lirc.c:5063:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_value'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
         tstate->exc_value = value;
                 ^~~~~~~~~
                 curexc_value
    lirc/lirc.c:5064:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
         tstate->exc_traceback = tb;
                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                 curexc_traceback
    lirc/lirc.c: In function '__Pyx__GetException':
    lirc/lirc.c:5119:24: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_type'; did you mean 'curexc_type'?
         tmp_type = tstate->exc_type;
                            ^~~~~~~~
                            curexc_type
    lirc/lirc.c:5120:25: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_value'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
         tmp_value = tstate->exc_value;
                             ^~~~~~~~~
                             curexc_value
    lirc/lirc.c:5121:22: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
         tmp_tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                          curexc_traceback
    lirc/lirc.c:5122:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_type'; did you mean 'curexc_type'?
         tstate->exc_type = local_type;
                 ^~~~~~~~
                 curexc_type
    lirc/lirc.c:5123:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_value'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
         tstate->exc_value = local_value;
                 ^~~~~~~~~
                 curexc_value
    lirc/lirc.c:5124:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
         tstate->exc_traceback = local_tb;
                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                 curexc_traceback
    lirc/lirc.c: In function '__Pyx__ExceptionSwap':
    lirc/lirc.c:5146:24: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_type'; did you mean 'curexc_type'?
         tmp_type = tstate->exc_type;
                            ^~~~~~~~
                            curexc_type
    lirc/lirc.c:5147:25: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_value'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
         tmp_value = tstate->exc_value;
                             ^~~~~~~~~
                             curexc_value
    lirc/lirc.c:5148:22: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
         tmp_tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                          curexc_traceback
    lirc/lirc.c:5149:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_type'; did you mean 'curexc_type'?
         tstate->exc_type = *type;
                 ^~~~~~~~
                 curexc_type
    lirc/lirc.c:5150:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_value'; did you mean 'curexc_value'?
         tstate->exc_value = *value;
                 ^~~~~~~~~
                 curexc_value
    lirc/lirc.c:5151:13: error: 'PyThreadState' {aka 'struct _ts'} has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'?
         tstate->exc_traceback = *tb;
                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                 curexc_traceback
    error: command 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit status 1
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /usr/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-d9ubht_5/python-lirc/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-d9ubht_5/python-lirc/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' install --record /tmp/pip-record-4yu2u8k8/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers /usr/local/include/python3.7/python-lirc Check the logs for full command output.

[ankithu]

I'm having the same problem even after following the above steps on a raspberry pi running Raspberry Pi OS using python 3.

[VolkerSchlegel]

I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with raspbian os 10 maybe that can somehow help you
@tompreston

[partofthething]

The has no member named 'exc_traceback'; did you mean 'curexc_traceback'? etc. errors are due to a cython that is out of date. The PyPI probably has c code generated by an outdated version of cython. A workaround that I just found that works on a Raspberry Pi 3 using Python 3.7 to work is to clone the repository source and build it yourself. This re-runs cython with modern cython which doesn't have those errors.

pip install cython
git clone https://github.com/tompreston/python-lirc.git
cd python-lirc/
python setup.py build
python setup.py install

gives ...

Processing dependencies for python-lirc==1.2.3
Finished processing dependencies for python-lirc==1.2.3

Yay we're back in business!

[VolkerSchlegel]

ok, I tried again some minutes ago, because I needed to reinstall raspbian a while ago and now I get another error:

pip3 install python-lirc
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Collecting python-lirc
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/20/37/5614ed0459439a96430e1aac479b6608b51e69ca0bd7d91277517d5895e9/python-lirc-1.2.3.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: python-lirc
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for python-lirc ... error
  Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-p2s1l7wl/python-lirc/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-9_3_7hbw --python-tag cp37:
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'lirc' extension
  creating build
  creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7
  creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7/lirc
  arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/lirc/ -I/usr/include/python3.7m -c lirc/lirc.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7/lirc/lirc.o
  lirc/lirc.c:276:10: fatal error: lirc/lirc_client.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
   #include "lirc/lirc_client.h"
            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  compilation terminated.
  error: command 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit status 1
  
  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for python-lirc
  Running setup.py clean for python-lirc
Failed to build python-lirc
Installing collected packages: python-lirc
  Running setup.py install for python-lirc ... error
    Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-p2s1l7wl/python-lirc/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-aj6aj4_w/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=:
    running install
    running build
    running build_ext
    building 'lirc' extension
    creating build
    creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7
    creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7/lirc
    arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/lirc/ -I/usr/include/python3.7m -c lirc/lirc.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7/lirc/lirc.o
    lirc/lirc.c:276:10: fatal error: lirc/lirc_client.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
     #include "lirc/lirc_client.h"
              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    compilation terminated.
    error: command 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit status 1
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-p2s1l7wl/python-lirc/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-aj6aj4_w/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-p2s1l7wl/python-lirc/

I have no idea while the error message changed, but if this means one error less I'll take it 🤷‍♂️

[partofthething]

That gets back to this where the suggestion is:

try installing liblircclient-dev

So sudo apt install liblircclient-dev should do it.

[VolkerSchlegel]

I installed liblircclient-dev, now this error is gone, but there is another one....

~ $ pip3 install python-lirc
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Collecting python-lirc
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/20/37/5614ed0459439a96430e1aac479b6608b51e69ca0bd7d91277517d5895e9/python-lirc-1.2.3.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: python-lirc
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for python-lirc ... error
  Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-4nx6umps/python-lirc/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-nca76hz1 --python-tag cp37:
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'lirc' extension
  creating build
  creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7
  creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7/lirc
  arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/lirc/ -I/usr/include/python3.7m -c lirc/lirc.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7/lirc/lirc.o
  lirc/lirc.c: In function ‘__Pyx__ExceptionSave’:
  lirc/lirc.c:5050:21: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_type’; did you mean ‘curexc_type’?
       *type = tstate->exc_type;
                       ^~~~~~~~
                       curexc_type
  lirc/lirc.c:5051:22: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_value’; did you mean ‘curexc_value’?
       *value = tstate->exc_value;
                        ^~~~~~~~~
                        curexc_value
  lirc/lirc.c:5052:19: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_traceback’; did you mean ‘curexc_traceback’?
       *tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                     curexc_traceback
  lirc/lirc.c: In function ‘__Pyx__ExceptionReset’:
  lirc/lirc.c:5059:24: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_type’; did you mean ‘curexc_type’?
       tmp_type = tstate->exc_type;
                          ^~~~~~~~
                          curexc_type
  lirc/lirc.c:5060:25: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_value’; did you mean ‘curexc_value’?
       tmp_value = tstate->exc_value;
                           ^~~~~~~~~
                           curexc_value
  lirc/lirc.c:5061:22: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_traceback’; did you mean ‘curexc_traceback’?
       tmp_tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                        curexc_traceback
  lirc/lirc.c:5062:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_type’; did you mean ‘curexc_type’?
       tstate->exc_type = type;
               ^~~~~~~~
               curexc_type
  lirc/lirc.c:5063:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_value’; did you mean ‘curexc_value’?
       tstate->exc_value = value;
               ^~~~~~~~~
               curexc_value
  lirc/lirc.c:5064:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_traceback’; did you mean ‘curexc_traceback’?
       tstate->exc_traceback = tb;
               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
               curexc_traceback
  lirc/lirc.c: In function ‘__Pyx__GetException’:
  lirc/lirc.c:5119:24: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_type’; did you mean ‘curexc_type’?
       tmp_type = tstate->exc_type;
                          ^~~~~~~~
                          curexc_type
  lirc/lirc.c:5120:25: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_value’; did you mean ‘curexc_value’?
       tmp_value = tstate->exc_value;
                           ^~~~~~~~~
                           curexc_value
  lirc/lirc.c:5121:22: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_traceback’; did you mean ‘curexc_traceback’?
       tmp_tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                        curexc_traceback
  lirc/lirc.c:5122:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_type’; did you mean ‘curexc_type’?
       tstate->exc_type = local_type;
               ^~~~~~~~
               curexc_type
  lirc/lirc.c:5123:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_value’; did you mean ‘curexc_value’?
       tstate->exc_value = local_value;
               ^~~~~~~~~
               curexc_value
  lirc/lirc.c:5124:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_traceback’; did you mean ‘curexc_traceback’?
       tstate->exc_traceback = local_tb;
               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
               curexc_traceback
  lirc/lirc.c: In function ‘__Pyx__ExceptionSwap’:
  lirc/lirc.c:5146:24: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_type’; did you mean ‘curexc_type’?
       tmp_type = tstate->exc_type;
                          ^~~~~~~~
                          curexc_type
  lirc/lirc.c:5147:25: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_value’; did you mean ‘curexc_value’?
       tmp_value = tstate->exc_value;
                           ^~~~~~~~~
                           curexc_value
  lirc/lirc.c:5148:22: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_traceback’; did you mean ‘curexc_traceback’?
       tmp_tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                        curexc_traceback
  lirc/lirc.c:5149:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_type’; did you mean ‘curexc_type’?
       tstate->exc_type = *type;
               ^~~~~~~~
               curexc_type
  lirc/lirc.c:5150:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_value’; did you mean ‘curexc_value’?
       tstate->exc_value = *value;
               ^~~~~~~~~
               curexc_value
  lirc/lirc.c:5151:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_traceback’; did you mean ‘curexc_traceback’?
       tstate->exc_traceback = *tb;
               ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
               curexc_traceback
  error: command 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit status 1
  
  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for python-lirc
  Running setup.py clean for python-lirc
Failed to build python-lirc
Installing collected packages: python-lirc
  Running setup.py install for python-lirc ... error
    Complete output from command /usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-4nx6umps/python-lirc/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-2jhve9of/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=:
    running install
    running build
    running build_ext
    building 'lirc' extension
    creating build
    creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7
    creating build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7/lirc
    arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/lirc/ -I/usr/include/python3.7m -c lirc/lirc.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-3.7/lirc/lirc.o
    lirc/lirc.c: In function ‘__Pyx__ExceptionSave’:
    lirc/lirc.c:5050:21: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_type’; did you mean ‘curexc_type’?
         *type = tstate->exc_type;
                         ^~~~~~~~
                         curexc_type
    lirc/lirc.c:5051:22: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_value’; did you mean ‘curexc_value’?
         *value = tstate->exc_value;
                          ^~~~~~~~~
                          curexc_value
    lirc/lirc.c:5052:19: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_traceback’; did you mean ‘curexc_traceback’?
         *tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                       curexc_traceback
    lirc/lirc.c: In function ‘__Pyx__ExceptionReset’:
    lirc/lirc.c:5059:24: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_type’; did you mean ‘curexc_type’?
         tmp_type = tstate->exc_type;
                            ^~~~~~~~
                            curexc_type
    lirc/lirc.c:5060:25: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_value’; did you mean ‘curexc_value’?
         tmp_value = tstate->exc_value;
                             ^~~~~~~~~
                             curexc_value
    lirc/lirc.c:5061:22: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_traceback’; did you mean ‘curexc_traceback’?
         tmp_tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                          curexc_traceback
    lirc/lirc.c:5062:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_type’; did you mean ‘curexc_type’?
         tstate->exc_type = type;
                 ^~~~~~~~
                 curexc_type
    lirc/lirc.c:5063:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_value’; did you mean ‘curexc_value’?
         tstate->exc_value = value;
                 ^~~~~~~~~
                 curexc_value
    lirc/lirc.c:5064:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_traceback’; did you mean ‘curexc_traceback’?
         tstate->exc_traceback = tb;
                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                 curexc_traceback
    lirc/lirc.c: In function ‘__Pyx__GetException’:
    lirc/lirc.c:5119:24: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_type’; did you mean ‘curexc_type’?
         tmp_type = tstate->exc_type;
                            ^~~~~~~~
                            curexc_type
    lirc/lirc.c:5120:25: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_value’; did you mean ‘curexc_value’?
         tmp_value = tstate->exc_value;
                             ^~~~~~~~~
                             curexc_value
    lirc/lirc.c:5121:22: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_traceback’; did you mean ‘curexc_traceback’?
         tmp_tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                          curexc_traceback
    lirc/lirc.c:5122:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_type’; did you mean ‘curexc_type’?
         tstate->exc_type = local_type;
                 ^~~~~~~~
                 curexc_type
    lirc/lirc.c:5123:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_value’; did you mean ‘curexc_value’?
         tstate->exc_value = local_value;
                 ^~~~~~~~~
                 curexc_value
    lirc/lirc.c:5124:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_traceback’; did you mean ‘curexc_traceback’?
         tstate->exc_traceback = local_tb;
                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                 curexc_traceback
    lirc/lirc.c: In function ‘__Pyx__ExceptionSwap’:
    lirc/lirc.c:5146:24: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_type’; did you mean ‘curexc_type’?
         tmp_type = tstate->exc_type;
                            ^~~~~~~~
                            curexc_type
    lirc/lirc.c:5147:25: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_value’; did you mean ‘curexc_value’?
         tmp_value = tstate->exc_value;
                             ^~~~~~~~~
                             curexc_value
    lirc/lirc.c:5148:22: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_traceback’; did you mean ‘curexc_traceback’?
         tmp_tb = tstate->exc_traceback;
                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                          curexc_traceback
    lirc/lirc.c:5149:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_type’; did you mean ‘curexc_type’?
         tstate->exc_type = *type;
                 ^~~~~~~~
                 curexc_type
    lirc/lirc.c:5150:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_value’; did you mean ‘curexc_value’?
         tstate->exc_value = *value;
                 ^~~~~~~~~
                 curexc_value
    lirc/lirc.c:5151:13: error: ‘PyThreadState’ {aka ‘struct _ts’} has no member named ‘exc_traceback’; did you mean ‘curexc_traceback’?
         tstate->exc_traceback = *tb;
                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
                 curexc_traceback
    error: command 'arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit status 1
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/bin/python3 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-4nx6umps/python-lirc/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-2jhve9of/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile --user --prefix=" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-4nx6umps/python-lirc/

[partofthething]

We fixed that error above in the comment thread by cloning the source from github and building manually rather than using pip because the pip/PyPI version of python-lirc has out of date cython code that doesn't work on Python 3.7. Don't use pip3 install python-lirc, use the python setup.py build, etc. lines in the linked comment. Switch python out for python3 in your case if you're not in a virtual environment or whatever.

[VolkerSchlegel]

ok, I'll try that

[VolkerSchlegel]

Building went fine, but I got an error on installing:

running install
error: can't create or remove files in install directory

The following error occurred while trying to add or remove files in the
installation directory:

    [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/test-easy-install-3414.write-test'

The installation directory you specified (via --install-dir, --prefix, or
the distutils default setting) was:

    /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/

Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory?  If the
installation directory is a system-owned directory, you may need to sign in
as the administrator or "root" account.  If you do not have administrative
access to this machine, you may wish to choose a different installation
directory, preferably one that is listed in your PYTHONPATH environment
variable.

For information on other options, you may wish to consult the
documentation at:

  https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/easy_install.html

Please make the appropriate changes for your system and try again.

[partofthething]

try running with super-user permissions on the setup line: sudo python3 setup.py install

[VolkerSchlegel]

pi@raspberrypi:~/python-lirc $ sudo python setup.py install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 3, in <module>
    from Cython.Build import cythonize
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Cython'
pi@raspberrypi:~/python-lirc $ 

(python refers to Python 3.7 for me)

[partofthething]

Sounds like you need cython. Run sudo apt install python3-cython or sudo python -m pip install cython or similar.

[VolkerSchlegel]

ok, sudo python -m pip install cython worked, I'll try again now 🙂